Use the File System Utility (fsutil) command to disable the setting that keeps track of the last time a file was accessed.

For example: fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1

4

Start the Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and change the TimeOutValue REG_DWORD in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Disk to 0x000000be(190).

5

Turn off the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program and disable related tasks from the Task Scheduler.

6

Shut down the guest operating system and power off the virtual machine.

7

Power on the virtual machine.

What to do next

See Optimizing Windows 7 and Windows 8 for Linked-Clone Desktops for information on disabling certain Windows 7 and Windows 8 services and tasks to reduce the growth of View Composer linked-clone desktops. Disabling certain services and tasks can also result in performance benefits for full virtual machines.